<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56332]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8670]]></link><description><![CDATA[An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oil is good in some ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oil is good in some ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63694]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66165]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say what you want about his stuff, but his makeup is off the charts. And he has great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34468]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say what you want about his stuff, but his makeup is off the charts. And he has great stuff. That's what I told him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I'm shaking right now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I'm shaking right now.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54850]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54981]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts or questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Agency has been behind us all the way and has explained everything whenever we have had doubts or questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24682]]></link><description><![CDATA[My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the devil grows old he turns hermit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41137]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the devil grows old he turns hermit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great would have none great and the little all little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great would have none great and the little all little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We needed to make a couple more shots early on. A bucket here or there, who knows, it might have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We needed to make a couple more shots early on. A bucket here or there, who knows, it might have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps  Sings o'er the hill and far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43421]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Bellenden we needs must praise, Who as down the stairs she jumps  Sings o'er the hill and far away,   Despising doleful dumps.   - Unattributed Author,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the government wants is to close down civil society in this country. And that means they have to close ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41249]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the government wants is to close down civil society in this country. And that means they have to close down us, noncommercial NGOs, which remain the last bastion of the Russian civil society not controlled by the government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17204]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62712]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32963]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.\r\n]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48332]]></link><description><![CDATA[I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9200]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55269]]></link><description><![CDATA[My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36338]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would tell you that I think it was very loose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5551]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just wanted to make some money and have a job since I'm not old enough for another job, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31153]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just wanted to make some money and have a job since I'm not old enough for another job, like in a store,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48962]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. [Lat., In regione caecorum rex est luscus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8161]]></link><description><![CDATA[To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us of that peace, neither ourselves, nor our foolish, earthly desires, nor my wild longings, nor the anxious cravings of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38487]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62619]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better fed than taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better fed than taught.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58961]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the desert road,   Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3936]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teaching is the single most important thing we do here at the University. To cultivate knowledge and watch it grow is immensely rewarding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11145]]></link><description><![CDATA[In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The big question is what will happen over the next few years, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The big question is what will happen over the next few years,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57521</guid></item></channel></rss>